“This isn’t just about Native people, this is about America,” say truth commission advocates
The recent decision by the federal agency responsible for preserving the nation’s history to endorse a commission on the country’s
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U.S. Interior Secretary concludes listening tour on Indian boarding school legacy
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s yearlong “The Road to Healing” tour, undertaken to create a permanent oral history of Indian
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‘Listen to us,’ says residential school survivor as N.L. premier begins apologies
By Heidi Atter · CBC News Premier Andrew Furey is set to travel to each of Nunatsiavut’s communities over 3 days WARNING:
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Monument to residential school survivors, victims to be built on Parliament Hill
By Liam Fox · The Canadian Press Governor General says monument is a ‘significant’ step toward reconciliation A survivor-led steering committee announced
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U.S. launches effort to document history of Indigenous residential schools
Project described as first step ‘toward addressing the intergenerational consequences’ WARNING: This story describes abuse in residential schools. The U.S.
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Pope Francis finishes Canadian visit in Nunavut
Residential school survivors, politicians, Inuit throat singers and drummers will be among the crowds meeting Pope Francis as he wraps
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‘A shared understanding’: Northerners take in Pope’s apology while looking to next steps
For Natan Obed, the apology by Pope Francis on Monday to Indigenous people in Canada for the role the Catholic Church
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Pope Francis apologizes for forced assimilation of Indigenous children at residential schools
The first day of Pope Francis’s “penitential pilgrimage” began with a heartfelt apology delivered at the site of one of
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‘This is my church’: Residential school survivor skipping papal visit to walk in ancestors’ footsteps
When Pope Francis addresses residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alberta on Monday, one survivor won’t be in the audience or
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Pope says he hopes Canada visit will help heal ‘evil’ done to Indigenous people
Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a “pilgrimage of penance” that he hopes
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Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous delegates for ‘deplorable’ abuses at residential schools
Indigenous delegates reflect on Pope Francis’s apology for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada’s
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Ottawa under pressure to collect records from Rome on Indigenous residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The federal government is under pressure to demand Catholic church entities hand over relevant
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Dene national chief says Canada’s Northwest Territories should create own school curriculum
‘It’s time that we step up and take ownership of our education,’ says Norman Yakeleya Alberta’s decision to renew its
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COVID-19 delays delivery of apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada
The long-planned provincial apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada has been called off due to continued delays
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Canada’s Northwest Territories: Former Métis leader says day school settlement forms ‘misleading’
A former N.W.T. Métis Council president alleges that day school settlement forms are “misleading” survivors away from the rightful money they deserve.
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